45 min listen
Danny Dorling on Our Remarkable Era of Slowdown
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Dec 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Danny Dorling, author of the book “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives” and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks with us about geography as a means to understand culture; how and why, despite our sped-up modern lives, the world has been in a global slowdown since the late 1960s; and the ways in which this slowdown illuminates women’s aptitude for leadership.
Released:
Dec 17, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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